The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Thursday continued his missionary tour of Uganda. A day earlier, the Primate of the Alexandria Church visited the Holy Diocese of Gulu, accompanied Bishop Sylvester of Gulu and Elder Metropolitan Makarios of Nairobi. Since arriving in the east Africa…

October 14 marks a special occasion for the Orthodox faithful in many southeast European lands, especially Serbia and Romania, as it is the feast day of St. Paraskevi of the Balkans, also known as Petka of Bulgaria and Serbia and Parascheva the Young. Pilgrims from around Romania and Moldova, numbering roughly 50,000, this week arrived…

The civil governor of Mount Athos, Athanasios Martinos, has accepted a request by the Greek government and the local Metropolis in eastern Crete to finance the full rebuilding of the historic chapel of St. Nicholas, in the Sitia region. The chapel collapsed earlier this week after a 6.3 on the Richter scale earthquake shook the…

Greece’s interior ministry this week issued an encyclical towards municipalities around the country on the manner in which the annual Oct. 28 national holiday will be celebrated. The matter is particularly pertinent to the northern city of Thessaloniki, which annually organizes and observes a three-day period of commemorations and celebrations, beginning on Oct. 26 with…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius & Celsus. Today is also the feast day of St. Paraskevi, who hailed from Epivates in eastern Thrace and reposed in the 11th century.  

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III received this morning, October 14, Mr. Michael Alan Ratney, the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Israel.

On Sunday, October 3, 2021, the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, the parish of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, New Jersey, celebrated its Feast Day, the Conception of St. John the Baptist. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic and the Rev. Deacon Vladimir Srbljak. After the Divine Liturgy, those…

After an earthquake rocked the island of Crete late last month, one monastery immediately organized the distribution of hundreds of meals daily to help the victims. The Holy Monastery of St. Marina Vóni, located in the center of the island, about 15 miles from Heraklion, now distributes about 550 portions of food daily throughout the…

It’s extremely important for the life of the Church that all Orthodox Christians unequivocally identify themselves as such in next year’s national census, says His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania. The Albanian primate made a call to all Orthodox while serving at the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Tirana on Sunday. In the previous census,…